Thinking Quotes by Larry Wall

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

— Larry Wall

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

— Larry Wall

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

— Larry Wall

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

— Larry Wall

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

— Larry Wall

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

— Larry Wall

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

— Larry Wall

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have…

— Larry Wall

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely…

— Larry Wall

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people…

— Larry Wall

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

— Larry Wall

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

— Larry Wall

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is…

— Larry Wall

If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.

— Larry Wall

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I…

— Larry Wall

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is...

— Larry Wall

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

— Larry Wall

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

— Larry Wall

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

— Larry Wall

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

— Larry Wall

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very…

— Larry Wall

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

— Larry Wall

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

— Larry Wall

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

— Larry Wall

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

— Larry Wall

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

— Larry Wall

But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and…

— Larry Wall

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible…

— Larry Wall

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that…

— Larry Wall